Modding changelog

This page lists changes in modding format between various versions of vcmi

0.92 -> 0.93

General

• Identifiers resolution system. Same string identifiers from different mods will no longer conflict. Side effect: mod can access identifiers only from mods that are explicitly marked as required. This causes issue with current way to add new towns via 3 mods. There are two ways to fix this:
  • Merge 3 mods into one.
  • Move all creatures and hero classes into "neutral" faction and add proper overrides into town mod. See Cove for example.

Town

• Icons use path to icon instead of image indexes:

"icons" :
 {
     "village" : {"normal" : "modname/icons/icon1.png", "built" : "modname/icons/icon2.png" },
     "fort"    : {"normal" : "modname/icons/icon3.png", "built" : "modname/icons/icon4.png" }
 },

• Buildings and structures use string identifiers instead of list

"buildings" :
{
    "building1" : { <Building format> },
        ...
}

Creature

• Field graphics/iconIndex removed in favor of paths to two icons:

"graphics" :
{
    "iconSmall" : "modname/icons/iconSmall.png",
    "iconLarge" : "modname/icons/iconLarge.png"
}

• Abilities use string identifiers instead of list

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript"> "ability" : {

   "ability" : { <Bonus format> },
       ...

}

• Field graphics/attackClimaxFrame was moved into missile description
• Field graphics/missile/spinning is now removed.

Artifact

• Field iconIndex removed in favor of path to icon

Hero

• Field iconIndex removed in favor of path to icons
• Spellbook description now uses string ID's for spells instead of numeric indexes:

<syntaxhighlight lang="javascript"> "spellbook" : [

   "magicArrow",
       ...

]